10.1177/0193841X04265185EVALUATION REVIEW / AUGUST 2004Letiecq, Bailey / ALUATIN FROM THE OUTSIDE EVALUATING FROM THE OUTSIDE Conducting Cross-Cultural Evaluation Research on an American Indian Reservation

There is limited guidance for conducting competent and responsive cross-cultural evaluation research with American Indian communities. The authors draw on Fisher and Ball’s Tribal Par-ticipatory Research Model to highlight ways in which this project is attempting to be culturally appropriate and sensitive as they partner with an American Indian community to imple-ment and evaluate a youth-based initiative. Challenges encountered during the evaluation are shared, as well as the authors ’ collective responses to such challenges. Implications for future cross-cultural evaluation researchers are also discussed in light of these experiences